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Depending on who you ask, the factors of lift vary. According to Aerodynamics for Naval Aviators, there are 5 factors: Velociy, Air Density, Angle of Attack, Wing Shape, and Wing Surface Area.
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What are the factors that affect the lift of an airfoil?
ShapeSizeSpeedThrustWeightDragWindThose are six factors I have concluded.In my opinion, this following link will remove your problemshttp://www.bestinnovativesource.com/2013/04/23/factors-affecting-lift/
What shape is most conducive to optimizing lift?
airfoil
What is subsonic airfoil?
which airfoil must produce the lift with less than one mach number . that is called sub sonic airfoil...... Another answer would be : an airfoil designed to perform below the speed of sound.
What causes loss of lift for airplanes?
There are a lot of factors that can cause the loss of lift in an aircraft, such as changing the shape of the airfoil, changing the speed, a change in air temperature which causes a change in air density, etc.
What is the purpose of an airfoil?
An airfoil is a 2-dimensional shape that defines when built and inserted in a moving fluid will create a "Lift". The airfoil or wing can be used to turn ships or make an airplane fly.
Why do flow separates over an airfoil?
Because of a change in the angle of attack. When you exceed the critical angle of attack there is not enough wind passing over the airfoil and therefore disrupting lift, the airfoil stalls.
What is the difference how a helacopter creates lift and an airplane?
They both utilize airflow over an airfoil. The helicopter moves the airfoil (blade) by spinning them, as air passes around the blade it creates lift. An airplane uses thrust from the engines to push the airfoil (wings) forward through the air, the air then flowing over(lower pressure) and under them (higher pressure) produces lift.
What happens when airfoil doesn't have enough lift?
The effect is called an Aerodynamic stall
What is an airfoil?
an object shaped to produce lift by the bernoulli principle when moving in a fluid
Why wings are shaped like airfoil?
Wings are airfoils. The purpose of the airfoil it to accelerate air over the top of the wing and create an area of low pressure, which produces lift.
Did the Wright brothers invention work and why?
Their aircraft? Yep. It was a biplane, and it produced lift by moving air over an airfoil. The effect of an airfoil is described in part by the Bernoulli Principle.
Which part of the wing produces more lift the upper part or the lower part?
Tough question to answer as asked. In normal airfoils, the top of the airfoil is thicker and curved and it is this thicker, curved section that causes the air to speed up as it flows over it. This increase in airspeed over the top of the airfoil results in a lowering of the pressure and it is that pressure differential between the top and the bottom of the airfoil that is known as lift. However, while the shape of the top of the wing is what generates lift, the force itself is applied to the lower part of the wing, hence the airfoil rises. I guess the best answer would be to say it is produced by the upper part of the airfoil and is applied to the lower part of the airfoil. Look up Bernoulli for a more detailed discussion.
